This Thursday, January 8, a skinny procession will stroll by means of Jarnac (Charente), the hometown of François Mitterrand. Some officers and round twenty members of the Socialist Party (PS) will honor his reminiscence. For the thirtieth anniversary of the disappearance of the previous President of the Republic, right now’s “elephants” have apologized: the primary secretary, Olivier Faure, and the president of the parliamentary group, Boris Vallaud, have a gathering with the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, as a part of budgetary discussions. In Jarnac, we’ll subsequently solely encounter François Hollande, the president of the François Mitterrand Institute, Jean Glavany – who was one among his closest collaborators –, six senators, ten native elected officers, however no different MP. The PS management despatched the nationwide secretary, Amin Mbarki.
The socialists don’t present any memorial ardour when mentioning the previous president with two seven-year phrases. He doesn’t have the status of Jean Jaurès, Léon Blum and different Pierre Mendès France, who however solely dominated the nation for a number of months – and even by no means ruled so far as Jaurès is anxious. “It’s a generational question. We are less demanding of this heritage than our predecessors. There remains around François Mitterrand either an admiration for the character and for his trajectory, or a form of distrust because he has his rough edges, his dark sides. It is divisive for some on the left”analyzes the socialist deputy for Calvados Arthur Delaporte, 34 years previous.
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